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Historical Event on 12/31/1998
Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He is the 18th Air Chief Marshal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/23/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN. |
| 1/27/1996 | 'Prithvi', surface-to-surface missile, test-fired successfully. |
| 8/26/1975 | Dr. Narayan Subbarao Hardikar, freedom fighter, journalist and Padmabhushan awardee, died. |
| 8/21/1879 | Jahangir Bemanji Petit, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 3/16/1993 | Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people. |
| 7/15/1920 | Earthquake in Delhi. |
| 1/8/1890 | Ramchandra Varma, renowned editor, was born. He also has the credit in making the Hindi Dictionary. |
| 1/25/1971 | Himachal Pradesh becomes a full-fledged 18th Indian Union state. |
| 8/9/1892 | Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, was born. |
| 4/8/1923 | Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week. |
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